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How important is your health to your trading operation? It's very important. You have to stay sharp! I know a trader with an international reputation as one of the top analysts in his field who made $60,000 then quickly lost $50,000 of it. If you take a long or short position in the market, the market doesn't care what price you got in at. It doesn't care what price anyone got in or out at. It doesn't care about your analysis or your trading methods. Plan logically, but attack with emotion. While this rule is suitable for a physical battle, if you use it while trading, you are at a supreme disadvantage. To apply it to trading, the rule should read ... Trend Changes and Market Entries According to W. D. Gann ... W.D Gann is considered a master trader. Many of his techniques are esoteric but a number of gems are to be found in his courses and books. Here we will look at a number of Gann's rules for determining a trend change, and market entry rules that Gann derives from these rules. TIME is the most important factor of all and not until sufficient TIME has expired does any big move start up or down. I paid $2 for my ephemeris and what it tells me is priceless. The 10 Year Bonds contract which trades on the SFE has been the center of my attention as I witness it climb the wall of price towards its balance point. The element of Time in trading has been, and continues to be, a leading subject for most traders to study throughout their trading career. Gann's secret Time Factor has sent a lot of traders on a 'wild goose chase' through time. Knowing Which Time Periods To Trade ... You should always figure the time from any top or high level to the next top or high point. Also figure the time from any low level to the next low level. Then figure the time from a low level to a high level and the time from the last high level down to the low level. Trade Management - The key to Profits ... I am in a trade and it's going in the right direction for me. Now the question is, where do I get out? Where should I take a profit? Where do I put my stop? In other words, how should I manage this trade?.
A Change in Trend is a Traders Best Friend ... There are plenty of technical indicators that you can overlay onto your charts, be it your bar charts, candlesticks, you name it, so many in fact I won't even start trying to name them all. However, essentially what we are looking for is a trade.
The life and work of W.D.Gann ... In this week's editorial we take a look at W.D.Gann. As anyone who has even read the back cover of one of Gann's books would know, the subject could never be explained in one neat article. The
Best in Gannswing Education ... It is now May 2000 and we’ve all seen the anniversary of the 1999 April high, and what a time it has been too. By the sounds of a few phone calls that I have received lately, I’d hardly call the move over before I’d call it a hangover! But what is good to know is that HotTrader did not get caught long & wrong.
From 0 to 360 in 365 days. As time goes by you will witness events that seem to have a consistent nature. To find a consistency on the SPI would mean a great deal to a lot of Australian traders, including myself.
The Universal Law of Expansion and Contraction ... Chances are you have heard of Leonardo de Pisa, if the name doesn't ring a bell you might know him as Fibonacci, the great Italian mathematician. Fibonacci made a study of rabbits, in particular the mathematics of their breeding cycles. You might ask what does Fibonacci's study of rabbits have to do with an article written for the AFSD' website?.
Watching for Time & Price Support in a Bear Market ... When you're looking at the Australian Share Price Index today it's easy to wonder where the SPI might be heading. Up, down or sideways?.
Sections of Range to Trade ... A typical campaign in any Bull or Bear market would normally run in either 3 or 4 sections. Keep your trading eyes wide open for the following retracement levels: 38.2% - 50% - 61.8% - 100%.
Gann Swings, Indicator or Strategy? ... In today's trading world there are just as many trading indicators as there are traders using them. Let's face it, we all seem to have our own favorite indicators along with our own unique interpretations of them ... Do W.D. Gann's Swing Trading Rules Work on Todays Markets? ...
The swing trading rules do, in fact, work on many markets, sometimes with quite stunning results. First, let's establish what the basic rules are. Foreign Exchange trading is essentially about exchanging one currency for another at an agreed time and agreed rate of exchange. Varied participants for many different reasons trade billions of dollars globally each day around the world. Spreading the markets, it is assumed by most that you need to be a computer whiz kid, this could not be further from the truth. All that is required is a fairly basic understanding of how the futures markets work. If you are sick of the highly volatile face of the markets then spreading could be right for you.
Screen Trading - A Floor Trader's Perspective ... After 9 years as a floor broker on the SFE, I tried my hand briefly as a local before beginning as a private client broker at Tricom Futures Services Limited. I was primarily an Institutional SPI broker, and as such learnt the ins and outs of the volatility of the market. Futures Trading and Taxation ... So, you're looking to trade or are already trading Futures. No doubt like everyone else, you see the Futures Markets as being another way to invest your hard earned dollars and reap the rewards. Trading U.S. commodities markets is a science, an art and most certainly an experience. The most important issues to note are. 'The Trend is Your Friend'. We've all heard it before, but many of us overlook the value of this cliche. As far as friends go, you can't find a more logical and insightful companion to analysing the markets. Optimising Returns on a Private Trading Account ... Traders can be distinguished by how much money they have in their trading account and how willing they are to risk it. Clearly in trying to optimise returns for a client these two considerations become very significant since traders at each end of the scale will naturally employ different trading strategies. OK so you've done the courses, you've read the books and your new Pentium is raring to go - but you're still missing the final and crucial key to the whole equation - you're trading partner. Adapting traditional techniques to today's markets A review of the TFS commodity trading ststem, in (pdf file format).
Investing in Managed Futures ... Investing in managed futures enables you to profit from futures trading through the expertise of a professional futures trading adviser.
Fluid Market Movement & the 9 Point Swing ... This is a guide to a more logical and systematic approach to plotting market movements, the correct use of which reveals a lot about the markets - and the people in them. The Psychology of Price Movement ... The effect our emotions have on price movement can be seen in the changing psychology of the market. How Does a Study of Rabbits Lead to a Strategy for Trading Futures? ... Although his name is as famous in trading circles as Ralph Elliot and W.D.Gann, Leonardo Fibonacci was the forefather of both these market gurus but never traded a single equity or futures contract. |
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